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Thursday, November 22, 2012

Doctors Without Borders appeals to Uganda officials to confront the Ebola virus



He appealed to officials in the organization "Doctors Without Borders", Minister of Health of Uganda Christine Oondoa, the need to take the necessary measures to isolate infected (Ebola), who has returned once again to face the citizens, and that after a month and a half on the last plague, which killed 17 people in western Uganda.



Noteworthy that, the Ebola virus was first discovered in 1976 the Democratic Republic of Congo, which lies on its borders Uganda and there is as yet no vaccine for this virus, and the World Health Organization (WHO) has monitored 52 cases at the end of last October.


A symptom of this disease, very high temperatures, diarrhea, nausea and lack of efficient kidney and hepatitis, and bleeding, which is transmitted directly through blood, saliva and waste for people infected, and the virus finds a warehouse him in some animals, such as birds bats, which feeds on fruit The gorillas and chimpanzees, who live in tropical forests, as well as pigs, which stores the virus in the respiratory apparatus.



It should be noted, that Uganda suffered since the beginning of last October with another kind of virus, cause a rise in temperature and bleeding, which was discovered in the southwest on the border with Rwanda, a virus (Marburg), which resulted in the death of 8 people and wounding nine cases . http://shorouknews.com/news/view.aspx?cdate=22112012&id=0eaa443d-0925-449b-a22e-90487c12ec53